Feel free to change the world.
Yeah, right. What am I doing to change the world? Lately, it feels like a whole bunch of nothing. Just mundane routine until Friday, where the next two days will fly by and shoot me straight back to Monday morning.
Feel free to change the world.
So it's a Monday morning, and I'm standing in front of the mirror, looking at the words on that shirt. And for the life of me, I can't remember the last time that I truly believed I was going to change the world. And something about that makes me feel inexplicably exhausted.
Feel free to change the world.
I think that the problem with this is that we sit around and wait for an opportunity to present itself. It's like walking into a friend's house and having them say, "feel free to grab whatever you want from the kitchen!" And then standing there like a stranger, hungry, waiting on them to hand you something specific.
Feel free to change the world.
We could do something on our own, but we don't. We stand there like a stranger in the kitchen, just waiting, waiting, waiting. We act like at some point between Monday morning's drive to work and drinks on Friday night, the opportunity to change the world will tap us on the shoulder and whisper excitedly into our ear.
And that's just not how it works.
Feel free to change the world.
Because we can, if we want to.
So here's to remembering that we can change the world, even if it doesn't look like the giant, grand opportunity we thought it would be. Here's to speaking up for those who are quiet, to defending what we believe in, to putting our actions where our hearts are.
Feel free to change the world.
Here's to changing the world in many ways, no matter how small, and to leaving your mark here, no matter how faint.
Feel free to change the world.
